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Slippery rock Gazette
Compelling Explanation
ANunnamed resident of the Wilson Lane apartments in Elkins, West Virginia, told police she left her home for a few minutes one October evening, returning a short time later to find a neighbor, Ronald L. Thorne Jr., 52, “standing in her apartment eating her lasagna from the
refrigerator.”
Thorne went on to tell her he “just wanted to talk and maybe more,” and then he returned to his own apart- ment, carrying the lasagna and one of her forks, according to the police re- port. The Inter-Mountain reports the woman also told Randolph County Sheriff’s officers that her home had been ransacked and a crisp, new $20 bill was missing from her purse.
When officers confronted Thorne, he told them he “had been sleepwalk- ing and had woke up standing in his neighbor’s apartment,” the complaint stated. The officers also noticed a pan of lasagna on his table, and Thorne told them “she could have it back.”
Thorne was arrested and charged with burglary; as he was being pro- cessed, a crisp, new $20 bill was found in his wallet. Hmmm: coinci- dence or clue?
Anger Issues
Residents of the Oakland neighbor- hood in Topeka, Kansas, called police just after midnight on Oct. 27 to report that someone was driving con- struction equipment around the resi- dential area.
The Topeka Capital Journal reported that when officers arrived, they found 46-year-old Shane Dee Funk behind the wheel of a loader, a piece of heavy equipment, driving it through yards and streets and damaging property. Police Capt. Colleen Stuart said Funk refused to stop for officers, and “nu- merous residences in the loader’s path were evacuated for safety purposes.”
When Funk turned the loader toward police, they fired nonlethal bean bag pellets at him to disable him. Funk was treated at a hospital, then booked into the Shawnee County Jail on charges of felony theft, criminal damage to property, aggravated assault to a law enforcement officer and fleeing or at- tempting to elude law enforcement. DUI was not mentioned in his long list of transgressions.
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